Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

The snowflake in chief appeared visibly frustrated when questioned by a reporter about egg prices.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

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Politico, on a man with a lovely fantasy:

Unmarried Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says that if he becomes president, he will have a “rotating first lady.”

“Well, I’ve got a sister. She could play that role if necessary,” the 59-year-old South Carolinian presidential hopeful told the Daily Mail Online in an interview published Tuesday. “I’ve got a lot of friends. We’ll have a rotating first lady,” he added…

Full image, for those of you who didn’t have sisters / sentimental grandmas.

Apart from dreams that won’t come true, what’s on the agenda for the evening?

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173Comments

  1. 1.

    Another Holocene Human

    What a bizarre thing to say to the press.

    But it keeps them from talking about what a goddamn hawk he is in the Senate.

  3. 3.

    lamh36

    Really Lindsey, really.

    I’m beginning to think Lindsey is trolling us or something. Either that or he really doesnt’ know about the rumours, or he is well and truly trolling us all.

  6. 6.

    Corner Stone

    And also getting bail money together for when Kay finally snaps and punches that POS Arne Duncan right in the fucking kisser.
    Obama should be afuckingshamed of himself on his education bent.
    Asshole.

  8. 8.

    mtmofo

    Isn’t rotating first ladies just a euphemism for a high-end Call Girl service?

  9. 9.

    beltane

    This could make for an interesting audition process. Maybe even groups of women or men could perform the role.

    James Buchanan, our country’s first confirmed bachelor president, had his niece do all the First Lady stuff. A rotating First Ladyship would be more exciting.

  10. 10.

    Corner Stone

    I actually kind of like the idea of rotating First Ladies. Myself, I’ve been looking for a spinner for years now.

  11. 11.

    catclub

    @Corner Stone: I am amazed by that 1-1. Either Warriors played badly for 40 minutes both nights, or Cleveland made Warriors play badly. I hope it was the former.

  12. 12.

    satby

    Seriously, there’s something in the water. A Facebook group of international soap makers I belong to just blew up when the administrator asked people to restrict their posts to the topic of soap and hold the “all glory be to Jeebus” talk down out of consideration for the non-Christians. The butthurt was truly epic, culminating in weepy GBCWs and a new group, specifically for “Christian” soap makers. Because oppression!
    Sometimes it’s fucking humiliating to be an American.

  14. 14.

    Iowa Old Lady

    @satby: Wow. That sounds epic. LOL

    I’m reading SICKLES AT GETTYSBURG, written by my niece’s husband. It’s well done. He has a talent for tying historical details together to show what they add up to.

    ETA: Good one, Baud!

  15. 15.

    Corner Stone

    @catclub:

    Either Warriors played badly for 40 minutes both nights, or Cleveland made Warriors play badly. I hope it was the former.

    This series could easily be 2-0 either way at this point.
    But you have to look at Game 2 and recognize that Curry shot worse than Dick Cheney the whole game, and GS had like 32% from the field and Cavs still only won by 2 points after OT!
    LeBron is gonna score 40 but who else is left to be second, third and fourth scorer for the Cavs for the next few games? Mike Miller can’t be on the floor more than 10 minutes a game, and Mozgov will get the Cavs killed when GS goes small.
    I hope they go OT a third time! It’s fucking nuts!

  16. 16.

    Schlemazel

    I wonder is, as the second gay President of the US, he might come out and admit he was the first openly gay President?

  18. 18.

    Laertes

    Dude’s got a point. Without a first lady, we’d have… er. I mean, the department of…mumble…would lack direction. Uh.

    Okay, why do we need a First Lady? I mean, I get that the President’s spouse is going to have a hard time doing a regular job. Between the protection detail and the conflicts of interest, it’s got to be nearly impossible for them to do anything other than a White House policy or PR job of some kind or other.

    But unless I’m seriously misreading the situation, the job of First Spouse exists to give that spouse something to do. If there’s no such person, there’s no need to fill the post.

  19. 19.

    ? Martin

    BTW, the women will be those who have had abortions, and they’ll be rotating on a spit over an open fire.

  23. 23.

    Corner Stone

    It’s amusing that the NBA stated officials missed calls down the stretch in Game 2. No shit. Green holding LeBron down on a jump ball was not in any way obvious people.

  25. 25.

    Schlemazel

    @Iowa Old Lady:
    A book I might have to get. I have read by my guess 205 books on the Civil War and this one sounds like it might be worth a read. Was just at Gettysburg this past summer and it was very emotional to stand where the 1st MN stood.

  27. 27.

    lamh36

    So the McKinney cop resigned huh. My guess, dude had more than just this incident on his 10 year record (friend from Texas said he had a problematic traffic stop involving a possible “anal” search for a traffic stop?? But that just seems um weird, but I do trust this friend, but still) and the city was happy to unload him. Also too, not being forced means he can be rehired somewhere else (lord good luck to that community) and doesn’t lose pension and such.

    The same friend from Texas tells me that the officer has allegedly been receiving death threats, I’m expecting a Go Fund Me account any minute now.

    Ya know what I’m tired of. I’m tired of these folks claiming they are getting death threats. I honestly think it’s just a way to get sympathy and maybe a Go FundMe account going for idiots who support ’em.

    My question is always, First of all, how did they get them? who mails letters anymore. You can’t just get people’s cell numbers anymore. It’s so easy to say you are getting death threats nowadays just so you can get some go fund me. Shit I get calls on my cell from numbers I don’t know..guess what I don’t answer them. If they really want to say something they leave voice mails. Well if u making threats how many would be stupid enough to leave their voices on recording. Also too, it’s isn’t the days of prank calling. that’s been hard to do once they created *69 on landlines. Online death threats maybe? But still, I guess what I’m saying is…there should be more to it than them just saying they receive them.

  28. 28.

    Corner Stone

    I just don’t know who KFC thinks is buying their fried chicken. Do they think it’s plantation owners?

  29. 29.

    scav

    @lamh36: He probably found a loose bikini top in his sock drawer, then the other half in the laundry room. Totally freaked him out. They wouldn’t move when he yelled at them and they were going to jump him.

  34. 34.

    Corner Stone

    @Baud: Totes creep. Who the F are they appealing to with that nutjob?
    Their food sucks, btw.

  35. 35.

    Felonius Monk

    One has to wonder about Mr.(?) Graham. Is he a cross dresser? Perhaps, one day he could be Lindsey and the next day Lindsay. Wouldn’t that qualify as a rotating first lady?

  36. 36.

    Tree With Water

    Remember that wire and paper-mache rendering of an oversized rat that attached itself to Joe Lieberman during the 2006 campaign? The democratic party should pay someone to follow this contemptible piece of shit around with an oversized rendering of an inflatable woman..

  38. 38.

    Germy Shoemangler

    @Baud: I didn’t realize at first it was the SNL guy, Hammond, who did the Bill Clinton impression back in the day. He’s imitating the colonel. Weird.

    In the commercial, the colonel sounds like W.

    I remember the 1970s commercials; they played up the southern fried colonel aspect. Then they switched to “KFC” and went more hip hop urban youth in their marketing.

    Now they’ve come full circle?

    I also remember when Mountain Dew first came out; the early commercials were “hillbilly” lampoons. Real “mountain dew”. And then the marketing dept seemed embarrassed by that, and moved into more X-Games, skateboard, white youth. Maybe they’ll come full circle as well, and produce moonshine commercials.

    The only thing I like about KFC is the biscuits. I’m fussy about chicken.

  41. 41.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @lamh36: I’m beginning to think Lindsey is trolling us or something. Either that or he really doesnt’ know about the rumours, or he is well and truly trolling us all.

    He’s aware of them.

    Graham smirked when I brought this up. “Like maybe I’m having a clandestine affair with Ricky Martin,” he said. “I know it’s really gonna upset a lot of gay men – I’m sure hundreds of ’em are gonna be jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge – but I ain’t available. I ain’t gay. Sorry.”

    Larry Craig maintains he’s not gay, and I’m sure on some level believes that’s the choice he’s made.

  42. 42.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @satby: One of the Dishers alluded to that drama in Off Topic (where I often post selected texts from last night). She didn’t describe it, or specify that it had some Jeebofascist drama llamas. Wounds like fun./snark

    She said giving up FB soaping groups. The Dish FB group is pretty much all pets all the time, with the occasional political statement thrown in.

  43. 43.

    Germy Shoemangler

    I remember reading a story about Colonel Sanders. After he sold off his company, one day he tried some KFC.

    Said it was terrible.

  44. 44.

    Baud

    I wonder if they rank above BJ

    Newsmax Named Among ‘Top 15 Most Popular Political Websites’

  45. 45.

    Denali

    Just finished The Invention of Wings, story of a young girl and her slave growing up in pre-Civil War Charleston. Kind of brought to life my slave-owning ansestors in North Carolina.

  46. 46.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Tree With Water:

    Remember that wire and paper-mache rendering of an oversized rat that attached itself to Joe Lieberman during the 2006 campaign?

    Isn’t that what Carly Fiorina is trying to do to HRC?

  47. 47.

    rikyrah

    Uh huh

    Uh huh

    ………………

    Rauner’s $250k education secretary reveals she reports only to governor

    WRITTEN BY NATASHA KORECKI POSTED: 06/09/2015, 06:05PM

    Gov. Bruce Rauner’s $250,000-a-year secretary of education, Beth Purvis, testified before an Illinois House panel on Tuesday, saying she is charged with handling education matters from “cradle to career” for children in the state of Illinois, but indicating she reports only to the governor.

    Purvis’ testimony revealed her contract does not require her to hit certain benchmarks or produce reports to the state or the Illinois General Assembly to measure progress with respect to her duties.

    “I report on a regular basis to the governor and discuss the activities that I’m doing,” Purvis said.

    The discussion came as the House Appropriations-Human Services committee called Purvis to testify about her duties with the state.

    At issue is why the governor’s $250,000 hand-picked education secretary is being paid out of a budget meant for the state’s most vulnerable rather than the governor’s own personnel budget. While Purvis is a full-time employee, she is being paid under a personal services contract and is not receiving state benefits. Purvis declined to answer when a committee member asked whether she volunteered not to take those benefits.

    The hearing was called in response to a report in the Chicago Sun-Timesthat revealed Rauner had been taking part in a practice that other governors had indulged in before him – that of “off-shoring” their own personnel onto other agency budgets to make their own appear more lean.

    The DHS had been the target of $26 million in cuts aimed at autism, epilepsy and burials for the indigent. The cuts took place just weeks after the governor’s office signed Purvis’ contract.

    While those services were restored, DHS faces additional cuts over the next year.

    http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/7/71/676494/rauners-250k-education-secretary-reveals-reports-governor

  48. 48.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    My fatalist sense still says Jeb’s the favorite for the nom, and if does lose it won’t be for lack of cash but you’d think the Smart One would be better at stuff like this

    Sam Stein ‏@ samsteinhp 1h1 hour ago
    NYT 6/8/15: Bush aides say he’ll raise $100m

    WaPo 6/9/15: Bush likely to fall short of $100m

    We lower expectations, children, lower them…

  49. 49.

    Josie

    @Corner Stone: I just finished telling my son I hate the new Colonel Sanders. I hate the look and the voice. I cannot imagine who thought this was a good idea. These people have no clue about how a southern gentleman would express himself.

  50. 50.

    Corner Stone

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Isn’t that what Carly Fiorina is trying to do to HRC?

    Her one and only job is to give cover for all the male GOP candidates to viciously attack HRC.
    If CF said it, also with lady parts, then maybe it has to be talked about, hmmm?

  51. 51.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @lamh36: I did kinda like that the McKinney chief announces that officer racist roid rage’s actions were “indefensible.” And who is the chunky white guy in shorts who’s every fucking where in that video, including way too close to the excessive takedown to be technically out of range for officer racist roid rage to avoid interference? Why is no one discussing that?

  52. 52.

    lamh36

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: My first thought on reading that…he’s got a thing for Ricky Martin. Now I love me some Ricky Martin since his Menudo days, but no way is he the “first” gay dude I think of when I think of clandestine affair.

    I mean, maybe we’re seeing inside Lindsey’s mind?

  54. 54.

    lamh36

    @a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): I’ve been wondering who da fuq that dude was too. At one point he was right behind the young girl when she was left sitting on the ground and it appeared as if he was monitoring her compliance.

    I see that people figured out who the woman was how was fighting with a teen in that other video, but so far no one has said anything about that dude

  55. 55.

    Corner Stone

    @Josie:

    I hate the look and the voice. I cannot imagine who thought this was a good idea.

    I honestly keep expecting the guy to rip off his facial hair and be Jon Stewart as he does his GWB, “Heh heh heh” routine.
    I’m still looking for a bullwhip handle somewhere in those commercials.

  56. 56.

    JPL

    @a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): The young man who posted the youtube was white and the officer just ignored him. I will say that a few of the police officers did the right thing.
    In a perfect world, the police officers who did the right thing would not want to protect the rotten among them.

  60. 60.

    Elizabelle

    @Schlemazel: If Lindsey Graham is the first openly gay president, I will be hearing that news from Paris or wherever else I flee to ….

  61. 61.

    khead

    @Corner Stone:

    I agree with this. And the stuff about the new Colonel Sanders being creepy. And KFC being full of suck.

    I also thought GS looked like a team that had been reading its press clippings* in Game 2.

    * – I guess nowadays it’s “watching ESPN highlights”. Get off my court while I practice underhand free throws.

  63. 63.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @lamh36: He *may* be the guy who’s saying on camera officer racist roid rage did everything appropriate for the out of control mob of teens, and it’s been suggested that he called 911. It’s also been suggested that his wife was the puncher of the older teen – the fight that started it all. I can’t recall where I read it but it seems his name is Toon or Dunn or something like that.

    Whoever he is, he seems to have the run of the scene, acting like he’s some kind of assistant to officer racist roid rage. I just wish someone would loudly ask who he is and why is he not told to get the fuck out of the way and let the police manage things.

  64. 64.

    jl

    From the interview in the link:

    ” There’s an important question nagging Lindsey Graham as tries to become the first bachelor in White House since Woodrow Wilson. ”

    I don’t see why that is an important question, especially at this stage when it is unclear whether McCain’s miniature war-pup will even get on the big stage TV debates. Looks like the newspaper asked it. Daily Mail. some Brit paper, I can’t keep track of them. Is the Daily Mail a serious paper?

    OK, so top of my agenda right now is to forget I ever saw this.

  65. 65.

    SuperHrefna

    @satby: That’s hilarious! In a sad, sad way, to be sure, but seriously funny for all that. Plus now you don’t have to deal with the talibangelical soapers, so you win!

  66. 66.

    Baud

    @jl:

    Is the Daily Mail a serious paper?

    It’s my impression that it is the UK’s version of Newsmax.

  68. 68.

    sharl

    @satby: I’ve been meaning to ask if you’ve had direct experience making translucent soap (or as it’s called less accurately, transparent soap). There is a lot of information already on the web, including recipes. The use of large amounts of ethanol, along with water and sugar/polyols, is the key apparently. But the production process looks very time-consuming and labor intensive.

    If you know: are there any quirks or tricks in making those soaps that don’t show up in the commonly available recipes?

    [FWIW, I have a work colleague who is interested in the underlying chemistry, though not for making soap, but rather as a possible means of providing a mechanism to enable controlled outward diffusion of materials incorporated into an insoluble polymer matrix (think “controlled-release” of materials, the kind of thing one might find in pharmaceuticals or environment-responsive coatings and other high surface_area:volume materials).]

  69. 69.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @jl: Wilson was a widower, not a bachelor, when he was elected. That fact should make the question even less important.

  71. 71.

    SuperHrefna

    @Baud: It’s an incredibly bigoted, small minded right wing nut job echo chamber.

    Its international web operation is quite deceptive because it focuses on tabloidy click bait, but the actual UK news arm of the Daily Fail is a seriously scary element in British politics.

  75. 75.

    kindness

    I can’t wait to read the comments in Wonkette on that line of Lindsey’s.

  77. 77.

    jl

    @lamh36: @a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): From what I’ve seen and read, there were a couple of middle aged and rather ‘chunky’ (aka ‘fat’) white residents who started it, and I gathered that the cops just assumed that they were the ‘good citizens’ who should be in charge, so they were allowed to wander around, mouth off, and do as they please.

    The white kid who took the video of the girl being taken down, who had been invited to the party, noted the racism. He said that if you were white, it was ‘like you were invisible’ to the police and could do as you please. I guess he meant to include the other white police officers who at least acted sensibly, but may have revealed an unconscious bigotry in that one regard.

    If some of the kids’ stories are true, those white neighborhood middle aged racists (the ‘good people’) started it, and physically assaulted a couple of people when they did not obey orders to go back to section 8. If they stick by their stories, maybe there will be assault charges. Though maybe not, since all the police, not only Officer Rage, decided their job was to roust the blacks rather than do a responsible investigation.

  78. 78.

    opiejeanne

    @Germy Shoemangler: I think he was especially disappointed in the gravy, I don’t remember him saying that about the chicken. I always thought the gravy was bad, even when Sanders still owned the company.

  79. 79.

    rikyrah

    this is so true

    ……………………………….

    One Republican lying is a joke, all Republicans lying is a strategy

    by LOLGOP on JUNE 9, 2015 in AFFORDABLE CARE ACT

    We got a preview of the clusterfuganonsense that our politics will descend to if the Supreme Court decides to deny 6.5 million Americans tax credits to buy health insurance on Monday.

    After President Obama, in his role as President Obvious, said the Supreme Court shouldn’t have even taken King v. Burwell, Senator John Thune sent out a tweet that was widely mocked but geniunely reflects the GOP’s strategy to place the blame for their intentional gutting of Obamacare on Obama.

    When one Republican lies, it’s a joke. But when all Republicans get on the same page and start repeating the same lie, it can be devastatingly effective.

    Conservative commitment to calling the Stimulus “the failed Stimulus” helped brand the most successful government intervention in the economy since the New Deal as a disaster even though nearly all economists agree it reduced unemployment and theclean energy revolution sparked by the bill — along with some effective activism by Beyond Coal, as Politico‘s Mike Grunwald explains — has led to more Americans working in the solar industry than in coal. Anti-stimulus propaganda was so effective that Democrats never even mention the bill that helped set us on a path to the best job creation of the century.

    Republicans have also effectively smeared Obamacare with absurdly circular arguments and horror stories that have proven to be more stories than horror. Republicans hate Obamacare so much that they nominated the guy who invented it to destroy it? The fact that the ACA is really a conservative plan is betrayed whenever Republicans offer a replacement plan that resembles Obamacare.

    …………………….

    Republicans won’t do that, as The Washington Post‘s Greg Sargent keeps explaining. They’re planning on passing a “fix” that breaks the law and then blaming Obama for vetoing it. There’s no question this will be their path because any fix that restores the law is an admission that the law is working. That’s an admission Republicans can never make given that the 37 percent that hate the law almost all vote in Republican primaries.

    http://www.eclectablog.com/2015/06/one-republican-lying-is-a-joke-all-republicans-lying-is-a-strategy.html

  82. 82.

    Germy Shoemangler

    @opiejeanne: He was certainly a fascinating character. Born in 1890, a real 20th-century success story. A showman with the costume and dyed hair.

    I’m not sure how he’d feel about seeing himself imitated like that. But I guess he knew what he was doing when he sold his company and his image.

  83. 83.

    jl

    @rikyrah: Wonder what they press will report when dishonest testimony from GOPers and their flunky nutcase lawyers is conveyed to the justices on the SCOTUS. Will it bother them at all, or will honestly reporting the scandal betray a lack of proper balance?

  85. 85.

    JPL

    @efgoldman: Gosh when mine were little decades ago, I would ask them to substitute the fish for the burger. Of course, I paid for the upgrade but they wanted a happy meal without the beef.
    This was thirty years ago and the franchises that we visited accommodated our request. Now neither one frequents the chain.

  87. 87.

    lamh36

    @jl: they is a photo floating around of the woman who some have identified as the woman seen fighting with the teenager in another pic/video at the pool.

    The woman identified supposedly worked for BOA as someone who approves loans, I believe. So you had a bunch of people tweeting and emailing and calling (I assume) BOA. The heat was on BOA so bad, that they responded on twitter about it:

    @BofA_News
    We’ve concluded our investigation and the woman identified is not a Bank of America employee but works with a vendor company (1/2)

    @BofA_News
    We have asked the vendor to investigate and take action (2/2)

  88. 88.

    opiejeanne

    @Germy Shoemangler: I haven’t seen the new ads.

    Yes, I remember reading about him taking his recipe on the road, essentially. I think his restaurant had failed/been bypassed by a highway or something, and he was just about broke.

  90. 90.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @raven: Yup. You got a clue?

    @jl: The other 2 officers seemed to be interviewing teens to investigate, but it all went to hell when officer racist roid rage went off. They had to deal with that and try to settle him down before he shot somebody, Sadly they didn’t get him calmed down enough.

    @lamh36: There’s another woman who may be fat guy’s wife. I wish I could remember where I saw all that. Probably rawstory.

  91. 91.

    JPL

    @efgoldman: That’s the consensus now but back then it was a decent substitute. Next time try Long John Silver’s. Just as bad but with more swagger.

  95. 95.

    opiejeanne

    @lamh36: Wow. Getting BofA to do something like that is amazing. Their service and systems here in Washington were so bad that we finally, after having an account with them for over 60 years, closed everything down and moved all of our banking to a credit union. Not all CUs are created equal but this is one of the very good ones, and it’s such a relief to not have to chase after fees repeatedly deducted from our account “by mistake” just because BofA renamed the type of account we had with them. Idiots.

  96. 96.

    Germy Shoemangler

    @JPL: I remember decades ago bringing our kids for their happy meals. There was a little play area with bouncy balls and a slide.

    I wish I still had some of the toys. Back in ’89 there was a Batman tie-in and the happy meal toy was a beautiful little batmobile.

    Wonder if it’d be worth any money today? It’s long gone.

  98. 98.

    Germy Shoemangler

    @efgoldman: It’s a brotherhood. They’ve got each other’s backs.
    They don’t police each other.

    Look how NY cops treated their mayor during a funeral. Imagine what they’d do to a “co-worker”

  103. 103.

    Germy Shoemangler

    @Gin & Tonic: Then I don’t feel bad.

    Although I did have a batmobile I bought back in 1966. It shot little yellow missiles. It was well-made, metal with rubber tires. I misplaced it years ago.

  104. 104.

    satby

    @sharl: I haven’t ever tried, it’s complicated enough and I don’t care for translucent soap enough to bother, so I would rely on the same internet recipes. Sorry :(

  106. 106.

    Ryan

    I’m sorry, but is there something wrong with not having a first lady? We won’t if Hillary gets elected. Or does the whole being single thing touch some nerve?

  108. 108.

    sharl

    @satby: Thanks! I figured it wouldn’t hurt to ask, and you certainly confirmed that it is as labor and time-intensive as online sources indicate.

    BTW, your Skinluvvers site has a lovely selection of soaps, just like others here have said.

  109. 109.

    Little Boots

    oh good god, girl, just, it’s not that big a deal anymore, just come out already.

  110. 110.

    Corner Stone

    “He’s feeling himself” ?
    That does not seem appropriate during a finals game.

  111. 111.

    Corner Stone

    @Ryan: Couldn’t give one damn less about religion or marriage status.
    He’s done because he wants to re-engage on troop conflict in MENA.

  112. 112.

    Little Boots

    @Ryan:

    yes, being single. that’s the nerve. that’s the thing being touched here. there can be no other.

  116. 116.

    SRW1

    I have a hard time deciding whether the rotating thing is progress over the binder full thing. It smells too much as if its the same kind of derp.

  120. 120.

    Little Boots

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    which they won’t anyway, cause they get it too. and he’s just being ridiculous. trying to be the warmonger to end all warmongers. it just … oh, hell, lindsey, just come out already nobody frigging cares at this damn point.

  121. 121.

    satby

    @Baud: there was 139 (still climbing) comments on that and not one person thought of using that.
    Neither did I, dammit.
    You have the gift.

  128. 128.

    Germy Shoemangler

    When all is dark within the house,

    Who knows the monster from the mouse?

  130. 130.

    Corner Stone

    @opiejeanne:

    We don’t have them here and are overdue for a road trip to SoCal.

    For years it was one of the first things I did when I arrived in Vegas. We all piled into the taxi from the hotel and went to In N Out and gorged ourselves.

  131. 131.

    satby

    @a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Oh my lord the drama. And that doesn’t even touch on the animal fat / vegetable fats donnybrooks that make the Apple/PC wars look like lovefests.
    I just wonder why so many Christalibans believe in a god so picyune as to need public praise after a successful soap cupcake gets finished.
    Oh, yeah, don’t even start me on the ones who make imitation food out of soap. With glitter.

  132. 132.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @JCJ: Cool. Thanks. When in town, they’ve been known to hang out in the Corral Room bar under the Tornado Steakhouse.

  133. 133.

    Germy Shoemangler

    McDonald’s, which has seen flagging sales and increased competition from healthier “fast-casual” restaurants, has hired Robert Gibbs, the former White House press secretary, to be its top spokesman.

  134. 134.

    hamletta

    I used to think being Lindsay Graham’s beard would be a good gig. I could live in a nice house in Charleston and host an annual Douglas Sirk film festival.

    It would be fabulous!

    Also: Woodrow Wilson’s wife basically stepped in for him after he had a stroke. They’d prop him up for press photos.

  135. 135.

    Germy Shoemangler

    @Corner Stone: We don’t have that particular chain in our neck of the woods. Curious name… were they inspired by Clockwork Orange?

  137. 137.

    PhilbertDesanex

    First Lady as a job sounds like a fine idea, and for married Presidents going forward, make some new title for it I guess. It’s a job and a big one. Why should the wife be so required to have such a demanding and all-encompassing job?

  138. 138.

    satby

    @SuperHrefna: now I feel like I have to stay to support the poor group admin (who is Australian) when I was about to ditch them all. I mentioned the soap cupcakes, right?
    Reams of post about getting the soap frosting piped JUST RIGHT.

    We’re talking nail gun to the temple worthy.

  151. 151.

    satby

    @Valdivia: I think so. It takes a certain talent for sure, but kinda loses the plot, you know?
    End of the day (and frequently during it :), soap is to wash with. I’m old fashioned like that.

  157. 157.

    satby

    @Omnes Omnibus: It is to sit and apparently never be used in someone’s guest powder room, at least until the color scheme is changed. I have no idea myself.

    I go for the “10 test soaps in every soap dish” look myself. People visiting me get choices!

  158. 158.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @satby: I have a bar of soap in a soap dish next to the sink. But then I am single guy who is not in the soap business.

  159. 159.

    Brachiator

    @PhilbertDesanex: A presidential wife isn’t required to do anything. There has always been a ceremonial and social side of Washington, and the first lady served as a hostess for many of these functions. When Jefferson, a widower, was prez, Dolley Madison served as his hostess. Some wives hate the job. I suppose that you could easily hire someone to do the job, though I bet you that the wives of some foreign dignitaries would see this as a snub. Obviously though, the prospect of a woman president will bring changes.

  160. 160.

    NotMax

    @Omnes Omnibus

    Place it precisely in counterpoint to the fancy little guest towels, which no one living there is allowed to use and guests are timorous about using.

  164. 164.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @NotMax: In my defense, i got while I was married. Before that, the soap sat in the little depression thing on the rim of the sink.

  165. 165.

    Smiling Mortician

    I’m probably not the first to note this, but I’ve had a long, long, long day at work and I can’t be arsed to read all 170 comments before saying Lindsey Graham is only 59 years old? I am seriously surprised.

  166. 166.

    joel hanes

    @? Martin:

    First they came for the Christian soap-makers…

    Then they came for the Essene soap-makers,
    but I was not Dr. Emmanuel Bronner,
    nor was my label covered with syncretic exhortations in a minute typeface.

  167. 167.

    karen marie

    @JPL: “Acted appropriately”? By corralling all the black males, leaving the white males to wander unmolested, while telling the black females to go home?

  169. 169.

    joel hanes

    @satby:

    a god so picyune as to need public praise

    Jesus had some very unflattering things to say about such people.
    The term of art is “whited sepulchre”

  173. 173.

    FortGeek

    @a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): The 911 caller’s name is Sean Toon…and his wife was one of the two women fighting/yelling at some of the kids as seen in the pre-police-call video. This came up in a Little Green Footballs thread Tuesday.

    Toon himself has quite the criminal background. He and three other guys got busted for beating some animals (including a flock of turkeys) and spray painting them.

    Should note that Toon is a different guy from the big polo-shirt guy who was “assisting” the psycho cop. I think I heard on Maddow that he’s with the pool management, but don’t quote me on that.

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